Review of Third age learners of foreign languages; Editor: Danuta Gabryś-Barker; Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2018; ISBN: 9781783099405; Pages: 256
Journal Title: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 4
Abstract
Book review
Authors and Affiliations
Dorota WERBIŃSKA
Parental visions of their children’s future as a motivator for an early start in a foreign language
This paper reports on the qualitative part of a project investigating parental educational aspirations as manifested by enrolling their children (aged 3-6) into very early L2 instruction. The concept of educational aspir...
Classroom-oriented research from a complex systems perspective
Bringing a complex systems perspective to bear on classroom-oriented research challenges researchers to think differently, seeing the classroom ecology as one dynamic system nested in a hierarchy of such systems at diffe...
English medium instruction: Comparing teacher beliefs in secondary and tertiary education
Learning content through the medium of a second language is a form of education which is growing rapidly in both secondary and tertiary educational phases. Yet, although considerable research now exists on these phases o...
Not so individual after all: An ecological approach to age as an individual difference variable in a classroom
The main goal of this paper is to analyze how the age factor behaves as an alleged individual difference (ID) variable in SLA by focusing on the influence that the learning context exerts on the dynamics of age of onset...
Crossovers: Digitalization and literature in foreign language education
Digitalization produces increasingly multimodal and interactive literary forms. A major challenge for foreign language education in adopting such forms lies in deconstructing discursive borders between literary education...